Danger lurks in the shadows: the darker side of collaboration

John Leonard
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John Leonard examines the risk for IT from employees setting up their own collaboration systems

Shadow IT - the bypassing of the IT department by employees who set up their own systems - is the inevitable consequence of the ease of use and quick deployment enabled by the cloud. Given the choi...

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